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Volleyball Team
Drills - Warming up
Warm ups for volleyball team drills can be made more fun and useful for
the players. There are other options for warm ups than traditional
running-stretching combination.
How
to warm up for volleyball team drills?
How often coaches and players pay attention to warm ups? Or
does
it really even matter what do you do for warm ups?
For the club volleyball teams, or any team whose weekly
practice time is limited, it is very important to pay
attention to warm ups and not to waste any practice time.
Teams often warm up by jogging around the court,
running lines, doing some push ups, sit ups, stretching, etc.
Those old fashioned warm up drills can take too much important
practice time, especially if the practice time is very limited.
Generally junior club volleyball teams have 1 hour 30 minutes
practices about 2-3 times a week. If warming up takes around 15-20
minutes, or even more out of the practice time, it probably would make
sense to let players use the ball from the beginning - to warm
up while doing simple drills with the ball.
How to avoid wasting your volleyball practice
time?
Especially for the junior volleyball players practicing technical
skills is the most important matter. Also wouldn’t it be more
fun if players
would have a chance to work on some simple technical volleyball drills
instead of running, conditioning and stretching?
Why volleyball warm ups by running is not the
best way?
Not only because of the time concerns, but another reason why
you should
consider moving away from traditional running is - it doesn’t really
warm up you for volleyball. It doesn't warm up your arms and core, it
affects mostly your legs.
In case you are already doing volleyball footwork drills for
warm ups, those can be easily included in some simple
technical drills, instead of doing
plain footwork without a ball.
Few Examples
The bottom line is; start easy and make players
practice technical skills
during the warm up time. Starting easy is very important to avoid
injuries - the purpose is to warm up.
- You could practice volleyball passing footwork
as a warm up for example by pairing players up and them performing
passes
by feeding balls to each other. Once again; players are not warm yet
therefore it is important to go very easy until they are warm.
- If coach wants setters to practice
their footwork, s/he can make setters to perform their own warm ups
separately from the passers. Two setters can be feeding balls to each
others and setting to a target who returns the ball to the feeder.
Setters can switch positions after each set to keep them moving
constantly. It is important for the setters to perform setter's
footwork when setting. Again; to make it easy first, don't let them set
to long
distance until they are warm - start for example with "2-ball".
- If the practice theme is
blocking coach can do
warm ups
by working on the blocking footwork on the net. To make it easy
you can lower the net. Lower net also helps players to work on
their timing and hand placement on the ball.
To check out how you can warm up by playing games, or warm up for the
matches, go to our
volleyball team drills section about game warm ups.
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